Making Job Search Easier by Finding the Great Companies First

Have you heard of the Operator App? In the old days, we consumers would go through the arduous and time consuming process of getting dressed, getting in our vehicles, and actually physically driving to a store – or several stores – to buy something. Then we had to park, walk in, find the right department, and then find the right product. And if the store we were in didn’t have the option we wanted, it was back out to he car and on to the next store to find it. Sounds exhausting, right? Then came the consumer’s savior – the internet, along with Amazon and other online retailers. Now we can stay in our PJs, save our gas money, and browse through multiple online stores in less time than it used to take us to get to the first store. But there’s a sacrifice involved, namely getting help. Sure, there are chat boxes, artificial intelligence chatbots, and reviews, but the first is little more than a call center employee with little product knowledge, chatbots are just as limited with even less personality, and the latter probably involves many people paid to post positive reviews and other hired to denigrate a company…

As a race, we humans have finally hit the wall. Reality just doesn’t cut it anymore. We need virtual realty ( VR ), augmented reality. mixed reality. It’s evolution. It’s progress. It’s what all the cool kids are talking about. And it’s about to be a huge business opportunity. Last fall Forbes reported that more than $4 billion had been invested in virtual reality since 2010. That actually doesn’t seem too overwhelming a figure for such a high-tech sci-fi type of enterprise, and it seems much lower when you consider that $2 billion of that was Facebook buying Oculus, the maker of the Oculus Rift VR headset that has been the talk of VR enthusiasts for the last few years but still hasn’t made a breakthrough. Then there was the much hyped but then much maligned Google Glass, the first really big thing in augmented reality, which also failed to make any serious headway. So should you investigate a job in any of these alternate reality fields, or are we still tears away from anyone finding anything viable? As is almost always the case, following the money is a good clue to the answer. Depending on which Venture Beat article you believe, the VR…

Fareportal combines the best of the traditional world with the ease and convenience and technology of our new digital world. Here at Media Jobs we’re always looking for employment opportunities that are under the radar, those up and coming companies that the average job seeker wouldn’t even know to send a resume to. Today we’re taking our search into the world of travel agencies, specifically online travel agencies, or OTAs. You might be surprised to find out what a small world that is in terms of major players. Let’s see, first there’s Expedia of course. Then there’s Travelocity. No wait, Expedia owns them now. Okay, so there’s Orbitz. Except Expedia owns them too. Ah, Trivago. Owned by Expedia. Hotwire? Yep. Hotels.com? Ditto. Expedia has pretty much swallowed up almost every major OTA out there, with a few exceptions. The first exception is Priceline, because no one owns William Shatner. The second is… Fareportal. Who, you ask? Fareportal, I repeat. They are now (since Expedia bought Orbitz) the third largest OTA in the world, and you’ve probably never heard of them. Of course the first thing that would probably jump to mind is that this fact illustrates what a mega-giant Expedia has…

What if you could talk to millions of people one at a time and do it in less than 60 seconds. Sprinklr is the world’s first personalized scalable social media platform. Does anyone remember Tweetdeck? It was one of the first social media management platforms to be widely adopted by both individuals and businesses, way back long ago. Then they basically went under. In the last five years or so, social media management companies and software have boomed from a niche group to one f the driving forces in modern marketing and customer service operations. And the segment is growing more and more. But the focus has expanded exponentially. Tweetdeck essentially let you post to Twitter and Facebook (before removing the Facebook functionality and falling flat) and monitor your feeds with filters. Revolutionary once, less than the most basic requirement today. Now social media management must be holistic in its approach, because social media has gone from being a subset of the online world to the center of it. Everything revolves around it. Like the eye of a hurricane. Imagine the online world as that hurricane. Your emails, websites, social accounts, online software platforms, blogs, retailers, and so on, swirling…

Are you ready to work in the future? No, we haven’t discovered a startup that is ready to develop and market time machines. Not yet anyway, but we’re still looking. How about the media jobs of the future? That’s what we’re bringing you today, a list of next-generation companies that are the latest chosen few for the Disney Accelerator, the corporate accelerator program run by the Walt Disney Company. The media jobs at these companies and will be highly sought after for openings by anyone looking for positions in virtual reality, robotics, influence marketing, AI,cinematic VR media jobs, and maybe sports and toys. Why is this such a coveted group? Because former alumni of the Disney Accelerator have gone on to develop partnerships with the media and entertainment giant, and let’s face it – working with Disney isn’t small potatoes. So what are the lucky companies that have been picked to participate in the third session of the accelerator program? We’re so glad you asked. Let’s take a look at the next ten possible recipients of your resume, alphabetically of course. Ader is a marketplace that connects brands with eSports and gaming influencers, and their network of influencers is already reaching over…